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Ambala City bus stand to be renamed after Sushma Swaraj

Sushma Swaraj: extraordinary leader with many firsts

8:38 pm August 7, 2019

New Delhi: The last rites for Sushma Swaraj, the former foreign minister and a BJP stalwart, were conducted Wednesday to the sounds of ceremonial bugle and Vedic mantras, the widely different tunes emblematic of the woman herself who harmonised many different chords in her persona. Swaraj, one of India’s most high profile woman politicians who […]

Former Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj Passes Away

11:35 pm August 6, 2019

New Delhi: Former External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj passed away on Tuesday night, AIIMS sources said. She was 67. The senior BJP leader was brought to AIIMS at 10:15 PM and was straight away taken to the emergency ward. She had a kidney transplant in 2016 and had opted out of contesting Lok Sabha polls […]

Brazil challenges Russia, China on Venezuela crisis

10:53 pm July 27, 2019

Rio De Janeiro: Brazil’s foreign minister has plunged immediately into the divisive question of Venezuela, urging his counterparts from BRICS nations Russia, China, India and South Africa to hear Venezuelans’ “cry for freedom.” “Brazil has heard that cry. I appeal to you all to listen to it too,” Foreign Minister Ernesto Araujo said at the […]

Kidnapped French tourists were in Benin ‘red zone’: minister

10:38 pm May 11, 2019

Paris: The two French tourists rescued from their kidnappers in Burkina Faso this week were seized in an area of Benin that France has long advised travellers to avoid, Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Saturday. “The zone where our two citizens were has for some time now been considered a red zone, which means […]

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